Humphrey Marshall

Humphrey Marshall (1760-3 July 1841) was a US Senator from Kentucky from 4 March 1795 to 3 March 1801, succeeding John Edwards and preceding John Breckinridge. He was a member of the Federalist Party.

Biography
Humphrey Marshall was born in Orlean, Virginia in 1760, the cousin of Chief Justice John Marshall and federal judge James Markham Marshall. During the American Revolutionary War, Marshall served in the Continental Army artillery, and he became an extremely wealthy farmer and surveyor in Kentucky after the war. As early as 1786, he supported taking Kentucky out of the union and allying with Spain, but this plot would fail. He attended both of Kentucky's statehood conventions, and he was elected to the Kentucky state legislature in 1792, despite being unpopular due to his affiliation with the Federalist Party and his atheism. However, the quashing of the Whiskey Rebellion and the ending of the Native American threat to the west gave the Federalists a fighting chance, and Marshall was elected to serve in the US Senate from 1795 to 1801. Marshal supported the Jay Treaty and the Alien and Sedition Acts, but he was defeated for re-election in 1800. In 1807, 1808, and 1823, Marshall would be elected to the state legislature. In 1809, he was wounded in a duel with Henry Clay. Marshall died in 1841.